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Warrior Dash

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Location:

Hope Mills,NC,USA

Member Since:

May 12, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

78.6 miles at Hinson Lake 24 hour ultra 2013

Short-Term Running Goals:

Mike to Mike Marathon- May 2014

Hinson Lake 24 hour ultra -Fall 2014

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run till the day I die and still enjoy it

Comrades---long, long, long term

Personal:

Married

2 children

2 chickens

cat

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Mizuno Lifetime Miles: 508.40
NB Trail Lifetime Miles: 94.40
New-zuno 9's Lifetime Miles: 515.83
Pinky Gladys Gutzman Lifetime Miles: 502.11
Brooks Lifetime Miles: 517.83
New Brooks Lifetime Miles: 507.28
New Minuno Pink Lifetime Miles: 519.24
MiZuni FLAMES Lifetime Miles: 470.24
Merrell Vibrams Lifetime Miles: 20.86
Mizuno Alchemy 8 Lifetime Miles: 586.59
MIzuno Alchemy 12 Lifetime Miles: 497.80
Brooks 13 Lifetime Miles: 577.62
Brooks 12 Lifetime Miles: 410.66
Brooks 13 New Green Lifetime Miles: 440.91
Brooks 13 New Blue Lifetime Miles: 445.67
Green Machine Brooks 13 Lifetime Miles: 560.25
Shiny Blue Asics Lifetime Miles: 164.85
Dreamy New Balance Lifetime Miles: 402.57
Total Distance
25.84
New Brooks Miles: 22.34New Minuno Pink Miles: 3.50
Total Distance
8.04

Ran around the hood today.  Listened to the frogs croak in the dark.  Saw 2 cats run across a yard, and saw 2 other runners out.  That really took me by surprise.  Not used to seeing anyone else out on my morning run.

avg pace 9:37.  Just a little slower than what I'd wanted, but it was tough this morning.

New Brooks Miles: 8.04
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45 minutes on elliptical

shred level 2

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Total Distance
7.30

Supposed to do speedwork today, but my first mate showed up for duty, so I went with him for a regular run.

Best part of the run was that the road was just re-paved the day before.  I have always hated the stop-light run because the road was so gnarly.  And now it's so pretty and flat and smooth.  I actually got to look around and enjoy the dark instead of focusing on which way my ankle was going to twist.  It's Christmas in  August!!!  Not even any lines on the road yet.. just beautiful black road.

6 miles with MR, 1 mile alone after we got home.  avg pace 9:36.

New Brooks Miles: 7.30
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Total Distance
7.00

Speed work today.  Mercy me, it's been a while.  I didn't have my garmin set to give me slow down/speed up warnings, I just figured it would take everything I had to make three 8:30 miles out of 7. 

So I did one mile warm up, and then ran as fast as I could, trying to get an 8:30.  I felt like I was going to barf, but I finally finished the first fast mile, and my pace was a 7:32.  Well, that's a nice surprise.  My recovery 800 was slow- I was spent!  Then I stopped & stretched my quads and set my watch to keep me between a 9 and 8 pace.  The next speed mile was a cake walk compared to the first.  8:17 avg pace.  Then another recover, then a 8:08 mile.  Then I had a nice long recovery/cool down. 

First Day of school today.  Saw some little kids waiting in the early dawn light for the bus.  Cute little critters.  Speaking of critters, there were bats circling me as I finished my last speed mile.  I saw one fly across my headlight, and thought it was pretty neat to see a bat so close to me, and then it happened again.  I guess I was starting to smell like rotten fruit or something.

 

New Brooks Miles: 7.00
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spent all morning making evacuation plans for the hurricane.  Nah, just kidding- we're 2 hours inland.. just rain & some strong winds for us.  I just slept in & had a rest day.  I did do some ball crunches if that counts.

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Race: Warrior Dash (3.5 Miles) 00:43:08, Place overall: 1807, Place in age division: 112
Total Distance
3.50

Since we'd never gone to prom before, we thought this run would be the perfect opportunity to dress up in our prom clothes and go "out" together.  I've heard about people who get dirty at prom, but I don't think this is what they had in mind!

MR was the prom king.  He'd gone shopping & found my prom dress at the thrift store for $6.  I teased my hair & "bumped" it myself :-)  The pearls I found on the ground as we were walking to pick up our packet.  They were really trashed & the strand was broken, but I put it together like gus-gus & jacque from Cinderella!  I wore my pretty dangly earrings (some lady asked me if I was afraid of running with my earrings on.  I was wearing a prom dress and she was concerned about my earrings????)

MR also bought himself a fabulous plastic boutineer and made a little black & white floral wrist corsage for me to wear too.  He thought of everything!

I had to alter the dress a little and gather up the sides of the bottom.  The wind is blowing in the photo (hurricane byproduct)and it looks funny, but it actually looked nice considering it had been altered by me.

We got off to a good start, but it wasn't long before that wool & cotton suit got MR overheated, and then the obstacles came and kicked my trash.  Over4 foot metal barriers, then under wooden fences, over & under, over & under...I thought it would never end!  Between me being slow on the obstacles and MR overheating & needing to walk, we had plenty of time to enjoy the course and take our time.  Cargo nets, crawling in black-out conditions in the dirt, climbing up 20 foot walls, cargo nets, tire straddles, wading through a river & climbing over logs, jumping over fire and low crawling in the mud under barbed wire.  It was lots of fun, and wearing a dress & suit made it "extra special."

Here's the after "kiss."

 

We rock.  It was the BEST prom ever!!!

New Minuno Pink Miles: 3.50
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Total Distance
25.84
New Brooks Miles: 22.34New Minuno Pink Miles: 3.50
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